Try on that outfit, share the look online. One of the downsides of buying clothes online is there is no dressing room for you and your friends to see how the item looks on you. But two companies are using technologies like augmented reality, motion capture and social networking to let consumers try on clothes virtually and share the experience with friends. Fashionista - a new service from San Francisco online recommendation provider RichRelevance that uses technology from interactive marketing agency Zugara - lets consumers see clothes projected onto their bodies onscreen and use gestures to change selections, rate them or take a picture for sharing. "This shopping is all about me, it's not about a model onscreen," said RichRelevance CEO and founder David Selinger.
"Everything is about me. From the image to the recommendations, it's reacting to me. " RichRelevance will be first to use these technologies in an online retail setting when it launches Fashionista today with San Francisco online clothier Tobi.com. Augmented reality. NASA X38 display showing video map overlays including runways and obstacles during flight test in 2000. Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer.
As a result, the technology functions by enhancing one’s current perception of reality.[1] By contrast, virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one.[2][3] Augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, such as sports scores on TV during a match. Technology[edit] Hardware[edit] Hardware components for augmented reality are: processor, display, sensors and input devices. Display[edit] Head-mounted[edit] Eyeglasses[edit] HUD[edit] EyeTap[edit] Augmented Wikipedia Reality Has Arrived on the iPhone. A month ago, we covered Wikitude, an augmented reality app for Google Android. Augmented reality takes virtual data, places it on your phone, and allows you to interact with it using your compass, camera, and GPS. The end result is the ability to see virtual items and information in the real world. Wikitude's AR app combines Wikipedia and geotagged information from its users and places it in your hands.
But while it's been on Android for some time, it hasn't been on the iPhone. That's because has Apple has only recently begun to accept AR on the iPhone, inadvertently starting with Yelp's easter egg. But now we've learned from ReadWriteWeb that Wikitude has made its debut on the iPhone. The app, which only works on the iPhone 3GS model (since it has a compass), utilizes three layers of information and superimposes them on your iPhone: information from Wikipedia, local reviews from London-based Qype, and finally crowdsourced information from its Wikitude.me website. Three Future-Looking Videos Of Augmented Reality For Business « Augmented Reality is certainly in it’s infancy, and we know that at best, is experimental. I’m new to this space but am watching, and learning from Robert Rice and Dave Elchoness to see how it develops.
While a few years out, see the proposed Hype Cycle, let’s spend time thinking about what the future could hold. I’m in intake mode. Over the last few weeks, I’ve watched as many augmented reality youtube clips as possible, reading blog posts (as there are no real articles yet from mainstream) and talking to smart folks. What I’ve noticed? Many videos are folks excited about the toys –yet with little reference to how it impacts business. I found a few videos that are void of the “Shiny object” syndrome and focus on how this could improve people’s lives –or fulfill a meaningful business need, here’s three: Above Video: Supplemental Information Added On Location.
Realtà Aumentata – Augmented Reality from soryn on Vimeo. Early days –but interesting to watch. ARToolKit Home Page. ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to the right a three-dimensional virtual character appears standing on a real card. It can be seen by the user in the head set display they are wearing.
When the user moves the card, the virtual character moves with it and appears attached to the real object. This website contains a link to the ARToolKit software, projects that have used ARToolKit, sample ARToolKit applications, a discussion group and full documentation. ARToolKit was originally developed by Dr. For information on this page, contact Philip Lamb. Translations of this page available: Belarusian. iPhone ARKit. Custom UIImagePickerController camera view. WARNING: While there are many apps (including some of mine) that use this technique, you should know some new apps and updates to existing apps have been rejected recently (april/2009). Please read the comments. So far I don’t know of any instances where the developer successfully argued Apple’s decision if the app was rejected. With all that said, there’s still an outpour of apps that use this technique… so the decision is your. Here is some information about inspecting and customizing the UIImagePickerController camera view.
You can download the working xcode project with all the source code here: customImagePicker I wanted to remove the top part of the interface (gray bacground and “Take Photo” label) for Mean Photo and Nice Photo (version 1.2+). You can download the customImagePicker xcode project with all the source code that demonstrates these techniques.
CustomImagePicker is a subclass of UIImagePickerController. [self inspectView:self.view depth:0 path:@""]; Confusing? Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That's Everywhere. Fifty years after its invention by the British Royal Navy for use by fighter pilots, the technology of layering information on top of our naked view of the world may cross over the line between science fiction and mass consumer experience as soon as next month. It's widely believed that the operating system for the iPhone 3Gs will be updated this Fall, possibly in September, to allow developers to use the phone's location awareness and internal compass to orient displays of information and imagery placed on top of the view through the camera.
"The internet smeared all over everything. " An "enchanted window" that turns contextual information hidden all around us inside out. A platform that will be bigger than the Web. Those are the kinds of phrases being used to describe the future of what's called Augmented Reality (AR), by specialists developing the technology to enable it. Let's set aside for now questions about the desirability of Augmented Reality.
Early Examples . Spam and Security. Augmented Reality: Here's Our Wishlist of Apps, What's. There's another dimension present, everywhere we go, that a growing number of technologists are working to uncover. These people aren't talking about theoretical physics or a magical world of fairies and gnomes - they're talking about information that could offer more context to traditionally physical lived experience. Augmented Reality (AR) is the phrase being used and this practice of making layers of data available on top of real world experiences could be a big one soon. Improvements in geolocation, bandwidth, mobile devices and APIs are the foundation of this feeling that a useful Augmented Reality may be more realistic today than ever before. AR isn't new, but it's been pretty hokey so far.
Now there's a movement to make it really worth doing. It's still such a fanciful prospect that we decided to publish our wish list for Augmented Reality apps we hope someone builds. We also posted some of the most interesting recent AR videos from around the web. Place Data Find My Keys or Car. Total-Immersion - Home. Stimulant.